[NTLUG:Discuss] Alphaserver 2100

[Burton M. Strauss III]

It's was the Bees' Knees!

(If you'll pardon a pun from approximately the same era - in computing
terms, at least)

-----Burton

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> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of comcast
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 3:30 PM
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> Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Alphaserver 2100
>
>
> So I'm imagining that back in the day (10 years ago) these things were the
> cream of the crop?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Kevin Marvin
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:56 PM
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> Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Alphaserver 2100
>
> Collin:
>
> I have worked with the DEC 2100 before, but only ran NT on it.  I do have,
> however, a DEC PW 433 at home that I run an older Red Hat distro on from
> time to time.
>
> Finding software for your platform will not be easy, but I would
> suggest you
> start with http://www.alphalinux.org/ and take a look there.  The part of
> the install that gave me the most trouble was the bootloader, which is in
> effect separate from the LILO / GRUB loaders.  I know that Alpha based
> releases of different distro's exist, and Red Hat has maintained
> theirs for
> some time (although I don't know if they do currently support it).
>
> Understand that outside of the base packages you will have to compile
> everything, but that 2100 that you have will make a fine server.
> It wont be
> terribly fast, but it will be capable of handling plenty of load.
>
> Just pray it doesn't break, parts are not cheap for it :)
>
> If you have any other questions, or need a hand, let me know.
>
> - Kevin
>
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Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Alphaserver 2100



Hey,
I just purchased a Compaq Alphaserver 2100 and was wondering if anybody has
any experience with these, or basically... any advice as to what to do with
it.  From what I've gathered it's a 4 processor DEC Alpha based system with
275MHz CPU's.  I've some some various reports of running Redhat 7.1/2 on
these machines, but the majority of OS's that are reported as running are
Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix. FreeBSD and OpenVMS.  I've never owned a server
before and any advice or knowledge that anybody has would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Collin.=


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